[DMCForum] Re: It's Official -- Fuel Injection Sucks (Andrei)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had fish around under the throttle plate assembly to feed the plug
wires through. Big intake hoses are all in the way too. I'm used to
wires that simply lay across the top of the engine -- less than a
minute apiece to install.

Distributor is only accessible straight down from above (is burried
between the air hoses, throttle assembly, and plenum. Forget simply
reaching across to click on a wire. And there isn't room for two caps
side by side -- my preferred method of ensuring firing order remains
intact.  

Plugs themselves were complicated by heat shields, engine hoist
brackets, and the air injection tubes, which I suppose isn't EFI's
fault but I'm going to blame it anyway because I'm cold and irritable.

Regarding my leaking valve cover gasket: there is absolutely 100% no
way to get the passenger valve cover off with that air plenum in
place. It overlays the poor thing completely. You can't even see the
upper bolts. 

I can tune up a carbureted 460, including thermostat and every single
water hose (I loop just two contiguous from the block to the heater
core in lieu of those silly pipes bolted to the passenger valve
cover), in well less than one afternoon. Don't even get me started on
V belts versus a sepentine one...

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrei Cular <acular@xxxx> wrote:
> Bill I don't understand why you are having so many problems with that 
> engine other than in your mind all the EFI must be swapped back to 
> carb.  I have that exact same 302 in an E-150 full size van with close 
> to 350k miles on it.  The biggest problem we had with the EFI system
was 
> the fuel pump going out around 100k miles.  I'm still running the 
> original factory injectors which at this point are probably leaking a 
> bit.  The van has much much less access than your truck and I can do a 
> plug and wire change in maybe an hr. 
> 
> One problem with the early EFI 302 intake was a thin area in a water 
> passage casting.  The thin wall is on the outside and will let the
water 
> pump drain the engine quickly.
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> Andrei
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> >I am in DC to take final possession of a new to me truck that has
> >apparently never been subjected to the rigors of routine maintenance
> >(the vehicle I was slam shifting around New Jersey last month).
> >Decided to start with ignition (cap/rotor/wires/plugs). Ford Motor
> >Company has absolutely ruined the 302 with EFI. What should have taken
> >less than a half hour consumed most of my afternoon. The distributor
> >is still right up front, where it always has been, but now has a
> >gigantic air plenum covering it up. Covers the water temp sender too.
> >And the PCV valve. Ever thorough, Ford decided to wrap the plenum over
> >the passenger valve cover as well, which in my case is leaking and
> >needs a new gasket. It's Douvrin all over again...
> >
> >Which way to the nearest cast iron manifold?
> >
> >Bill Robertson
> >#5939
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